Re: [xsl] Unable to get text() of node

["Liron" <magilam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Andrew,

Thank you very much for your reply.

It works!

As for your mixed content comment - You're absolutely right but I'm taking 
care of it.
In my project I'm actually applying xsl on html thus the use of mixed 
content for children.

Thanks again, I'm learning a lot from all the replies I get
Liron

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "andrew welch" <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: [xsl] Unable to get text() of node


> You can use the following stylesheet:
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
>  <tree>
>    <xsl:apply-templates select="tree/child[childname]"/>
>  </tree>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="child">
>  <childText>
>    <xsl:apply-templates/>
>  </childText>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="childname"/>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> But I would suggest that you source XML structure should be changed
> because when you have:
>
> <node>
>   <child/>
>   Some text
> </node>
>
> All the presentational whitespace surrounding "Some text" is part of
> the value (the first carriage return, the indentation and the second
> CR), which is not the intention.
>
> Having mixed content like that isn't really suitable for data-centric
> XML as this problem has demonstrated - its much better to have an
> element for each value, and each element should only contain other
> elements, or text, but not both eg:
>
> <node>
>   <child/>
>   <child>Some text</child>
> </node>
>
> cheers
> andrew